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24A SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL Friday, December 21, 2007 SB Prosecutor: Suspect wrote that teen was dead about the handling of the in The three remain "the primary three persons of interest," Mos said. "Any and all leads and new evidence will be investigated." Holloway's stepfather, Jug Twitty, said he thinks witnesses on the Dutch Caribbean island know what happened but are not coming forward. Two years of complaints case. Mos said witnesses have described the three suspects as behaving strangely in the hours after Holloway vanished. He refused to reveal details of other evidence, which he said was gathered through new investigative techniques and a listening device in one of the suspect's homes.

were misled. As far as I'm concerned, the case is over." Ronald Wix, an attorney for the Kalpoe brothers, ridiculed what prosecutors described as new evidence. "All they did was recycle old evidence and claim it was new evidence," Wix said, adding that his clients felt vindicated by the decision to drop the vestigation prompted calls for a tourism boycott by Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and other U.S. officials.

The criticism upset Aru-bans, many of whom searched beaches and hillsides for the missing teen. They hope the Holloway case can be put in the past. BY MARGARET WEVER 1 HE ASSOCIATED PRESS OR ANJESTAD, ARUBA A main suspect in the ance of American teenager Na-talee Holloway wrote in a chat session that she was dead a key clue for investigators, but one that fell short of assuring a conviction in court, Aruba's chief prosecutor said Thursday. Theprose-' cutor, Hans mos, msisiea e- ins uiuce lias done its best Switch to T-Mobile9 and get the most Whenever Minutes" legally impossible to reinstate a prosecution," Jorg said in a statement. "We are hoping better times will arrive eventually." The family blames mistakes by Aruban investigators for bringing the case to an end af-ter more than two years of searching for Holloway, who vanished during a vacation with her high school graduating class.

Mos refused to reveal which of the three suspects wrote the Internet chat message, but he said its discovery contributed to the decision last month to re-arrest the men. Joran vander Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe were subsequently released after they refused to speak to authorities, and the Aruba Public Prosecutor's Office saidthey wouldnotbe charged. The three were seen leaving a bar with Holloway hours before she was due to board a flight home to Mountain Brook, Ala. Van der Sloot, who now attends college in the Netherlands, said he left Holloway alone on a beach that night. He and the Kalpoe brothers have denied any wrongdoing.

Mos said Internet messages between two of the three suspects discussed a "way of operating they had, of picking up American girls" on the island, where the drinking age is 1 8 and American visitors go from bars to nightclubs late into the night. An attorney for van der Sloot said his client is innocent. "There is absolutely no evidence against Joran," attorney Joseph Tacopina said. "People 1 to learn what happened to ft 1 ij Holloway, an i JmU 18-year-old Holloway who was reported missing on this Caribbean island May 30, 2005, and is thought to be dead. Mos said he has done all he can to bring those responsible to justice.

"Given our sincere commitment to solving this case, we exhausted our toolbox," he said at a news conference. The Aruban prosecutors say they cannot prove a crime was committed without a body. Mos said he understands the frustration of Holloway's family, which has criticized Aruban law enforcement officials and their decision this week to dismiss the case against the three main suspects. Attorney General Nico Jorg said the case against the three could be reopened if additional evidence surfaces. But if they were to go to trial now with vir-tually no hope of guilty verdicts, they would lose the opportunity to try them later if strong evidence emerges.

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